When it became clear that the razor-thin vote hinged on getting an accurate vote total from Clinton County, CNN's producers tracked down Pfeffer, chairwoman of Clinton County's Republican Central Committee, who then woke up Tallet, the president of the Clinton County Republican Women's Club. Both appeared on the phone with CNN's Wolf Blitzer and John King to sort the whole thing out.

The result was late-night television gold.

"Whaddaya mean the numbers don't match?" Pfeffer stammered at King, who was explaining a discrepancy to viewers using CNN's "Magic Wall."

It wasn't long before "Edith and Carolyn" were trending topics on Twitter.

After Romney was declared the winner, the women rejoined CNN to do what very few political reporters were able to do last night: explain how they were able to size up the winner of the hard-fought caucus vote.